I've been saving Hivebrain some trouble by organising box scans, and something keeps catching my eye. Well two things actually, but I'll get to the second in a bit. For a short period while Tectoy were publishing Sega Mega Drive/Sega Master System games for Brazil, they seemed to put letters within circles on their boxes. I thought this was a primitive ratings board system of sorts, but it doesn't seem to make much sense as one. Examples Heavyweight Champ has an A G-LOC has a B George Foreman's Knock-Out Boxing (which is a rebranded Heavyweight champ) has a C Global Gladiators has a D Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition has an F Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 has a G they're not present on all Tectoy boxes but they're very common... does anyone know what they mean? and the second question as you can see from a few of those scans, there's an actual ratings system in place, giving George Forman a "T.I.", Jurassic Park a "13" and UMK3 "18". Anyone know what it's called or whether Tectoy made it up?
I know the ratings were made up by Tec Toy prior to DCTJQ or whatever the acronym is. No idea on those letters. EDIT: Is it possible that the letters correspond to years? I noticed the chronological order of those titles.
"T.I" is "Todas as Idades", it means, "All Ages" :P So it's the "Everyone" equivalent. I think it's the "Departamento de Justiça, Classificação, Títulos e Qualificação" DJCTQ.
I'm not so sure about the dates thing Ottifants (1993) has a B Phantasy Star (1987) has a E supposedly the Brazillian release of Phantasy Star was 1991, which was two years before Ottifants even existed
